Category: Video Recordings, Downloads and Streaming

Minute-Long Soap Operas Are Here. Is America Ready?

Popularized in China during the pandemic, ReelShort and other apps are hoping to bring minute-by-minute melodramas to the United States.
Watch Me Lose My Job on TikTok

Some tech workers are filming their layoffs and sharing them on social media. They say it’s part catharsis, part transparency.
Sundance Film Festival Ends With Plenty of Sales, Despite Slow Start

The festival, seen as a barometer for the overall health of the film industry, featured several movies and documentaries snatched up by studios and streaming services.
The Most-Streamed Shows and Movies in 2023

Hollywood was on strike for much of the year. And yet the time viewers spent streaming shows and movies went up. A lot.
Ring to Stop Allowing Police to Request Videos From Security Cameras

Ring, a maker of internet-connected cameras that is owned by Amazon, said the police could no longer ask people to share video recordings using the company’s app, Neighbors.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the Big Shift in True Crime

Not long ago, true crime storytellers had little in the way of first-person footage captured in real time to rely on. Now, as much of our daily lives are documented, the genre is transforming.
How Did These Strange Songs Hit No. 1?

Melanie’s “Brand New Key” is just one of many weird songs that somehow topped the Billboard charts.
Netflix is Said to License ‘Sex and the City’ From HBO

Media companies that had been reluctant are increasingly offering shows to Netflix, which is pulling further ahead in the streaming wars.
Netflix to Stream W.W.E.’s ‘Raw’ in $5 Billion Deal

The weekly wrestling program will move to Netflix in 2025 as part of a 10-year agreement that represents a big leap into live events for the streaming platform.
Netflix’s Head of Film to Depart

Scott Stuber attracted Oscar-winning filmmakers to the streaming service and helped usher the entertainment industry into the streaming era.
The Emmys Signal the End of the Peak TV Era

The Emmys on Monday night felt in many ways like a book end to one of the defining features of the streaming era: a never-ending supply of new programming.
A Few Words About Netflix’s Success: Vivid. Snappy. Tags.

The descriptive tags that the streaming service runs near each title — like “slick” for the show “Suits” — have proved crucial to getting people to click play.